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Tommy was born in Waterford City
in 1953. While in his early twenties, after playing tin whistle for a couple of
years, he met local piper Tommy Kearney who encouraged him to take up the
uilleann pipes. As well as his early tuition from Tommy Kearney, Tommy also
attended Willie Clancy Summer School where he learned further piping skills from
pipers, including Pat Mitchell and Liam O'Flynn. The recordings of
Willie Clancy, Séamus Ennis and Tommy Reck have also
influenced his repertoire and style of playing.
In the 1980's Tommy spent seven
years in London where he played with many of the legends of Irish music
including Tommy McCarthy, Bobby Casey and Roger Sherlock.
While there he also provided music for productions by the National Theatre Co.
and Rambert Ballet Co.. He was in demand as a session musician and worked with Elvis
Costello on The Pogues album - 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.' Other recording
credits in London include Clannad and Ralph McTell. He was a member of
the Thatch Céilí Band in London and in 1986 they won the Senior Céilí Band
competition at the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in Listowel, Co Kerry.
Since 1987 he has lived in
Galway where he has worked with Druid Theatre Co. and with the National Irish
language theatre - An Taibhdhearc. He has toured the U.S. on several occasions
with Liam Clancy, Russia with Shaskeen and Zambia with the Sergeant Early
Band. Recording credits since moving to Galway include working with Alec Finn
of Dé Dannan on the album 'Blue Shamrock' - Alec's first solo album. He is a
regular teacher and performer of the pipes at the Willie Clancy Summer School in
Co. Clare and has also guested at international piping events in the U.K.,
Holland, U.S.A., and New Zealand. In 1991 he released his first solo album -
'The Piper's Apron' on the Mulligan label. He released a duet album - 'The Wind
Among the Reeds' with his wife, concertina player Jacqueline McCarthy. In
1996 he toured Europe with Tony McMahon and Séamus Tansey and in
1997 performed with Iarla Ó Lionáird and The Irish Philharmonic Choir
and Orchestra at the Point, Dublin and Carnegie Hall, New York. He has produced
three albums on the Maree Music label - founded in 1995.
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1977 |
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin |
Óró Domhnaigh |
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1982 |
Robbie O'Connell |
Close to the Bone |
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1985 |
The Pogues |
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash |
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1985 |
The men they couldn't hang |
Night of a Thousand Candles |
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1986 |
Steve Tilston |
Silently the Snow Falls |
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1986 |
Ralph McTell |
Bridge of Sighs |
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1987 |
Thatch Céilí Band |
The Legacy |
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1987 |
Clannad |
Sirius |
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1987 |
Maggie Boyle |
Reaching Out |
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1990 |
Deirbhile Ní Bhrolcháin |
Smaointe |
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1991 |
Tommy
Keane |
The
Piper's Apron |
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1992 |
Brendan
O'Regan |
Wind
of Change |
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1992 |
John
Faulkner |
Nomads |
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1992 |
Anne
Mulqueen |
Mo
Ghrása Thall na Déise |
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1993 |
Geraldine
King |
Old
Time Irish |
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1993 |
Various |
Taafes'
Bar, Galway |
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1994 |
Alec
Finn |
Blue
Shamrock |
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1995 |
Tommy
Keane, Jacqueline |
The
Wind Among the Reeds |
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1996 |
The
Clancy Brothers |
Older
but No Wiser |
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1996 |
Seán
Keane |
Turn
a Phrase |
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1997 |
Tim
Dennehy |
Farewell
to Milltown Malbay |
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1997 |
Joe
Boske |
Amara: Islands Currents |
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1997 |
Iarla
Ó Lionáird & The Irish |
Faith
of Our Fathers II |
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1997 |
Len
Graham & The Irish |
Who
Fears to Speak |
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1997 |
Revolver |
Basico
2 |
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1998 |
Stuart
Cowell & Judi Mc Keown |
Age
of Reason |
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1998 |
Seán
Keane |
No
Stranger |
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1999 |
Alisa
Jones |
Irish
Dreams |
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1999 |
Jacqueline
McCarthy |
The
Hidden Note |
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2000 |
Seán
Keane |
The
Man That I Am |
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2000 |
Dé Dannan |
Welcome to the Hotel Connemara |
| 2000 | Eoin Ó Riabhaigh | Tiomnacht-Handed On |
| 2001 | Jette Torp | New Tracks |
| 2001 | All-Ireland Céilí Band Champions | Reunion Concert |
| 2001 | Eleanor Shanley | Eleanor Shanley & Friends |
| 2002 | Tim Dennehy | The Blue Green Door |
| 2002 | Kate Purcell | Shadows of You |
| 2002 | Various (For the friends of St. Luke’s Hospital, Dublin) | Cairde |
| 2002 | The McCarthys | The Family Album |
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